Mechanical Ventilation Lessons Learned From Alveolar Micromechanics

Mechanical ventilation: lessons from the ARDSNet trial

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized clinically by bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, decreased pulmonary compliance and hypoxemia. Although supportive care for ARDS seems to have improved over the past few decades, few studies have shown that any treatment can decrease mortality for this deadly syndrome. In the 4 May 2000 issue of N...

Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Some Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster in Iran

Background: Disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. Psychosocial Rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. This research attempts to study some lessons learned from Psychosocial Rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in Iran. M...

Factors Affecting Medication Errors from Nurses' Perspective: Lessons Learned

Introduction: Medical errors are among the most threatening faults against patient’s safety in all countries. The most frequent medical errors are medication errors which can lead to serious effects and even death in patients. Therefore, this study aimed to explain factors affecting medication eroors from the viewpoints of nurses in order to present strategies to reduce these errors. Methods:...

Ventilation: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Mechanical ventilation practices continue to evolve. In particular, the ventilatory care of patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been refocused on avoiding or minimizing further damage to the fragile, injured lung. Conventional ventilators have been used successfully to limit this ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) (1–3), but questions rema...

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